Accounts of Gulenist Turkey trips

This is a list of online accounts of, or information about, Gulenist Turkey trips.

Accounts appearing on non-Gulenist websites

http://www.clayton.edu/President/Turkey-2011President of Clayton State University, 2011"Yesterday in Ankara was a busy, but a highly informative day. It began with a visit to the Journalists and Writers foundation. That foundation is closely associated with the work of Fethullah Gulen, identified a few years ago in Foreign Policy magazine as one of the 100 leading public intellectuals in the world."

http://cnnc.uncg.edu/2013/07/turkish-delight/Raleigh Bailey, University of North Carolina at Greensboro"The North Carolina nonprofit that organized the trip is called 'The Divan Center.' ...North Carolina has three main clusters of Turkish immigrants who participate in the Hizmet movement through the NC Divan Center."

http://www.mtsu.edu/news/Record/Rec_v19/rec1906.phpFor the Record: Travel abroad widens Honors dean's perspectiveDr. John R. Vile, Middle Tennessee State Univeristy"We visited two Turkish universities, two high schools, a hospital and media outlets (where we appeared briefly on a cooking show), many supported by M. Fettulah Gülen, about whom I am writing a paper."

http://www.uh.edu/socialwork/_docs/alumni/connections-newsletter/Connections_Newsletter_sum08.pdfUniversity of Houston, Graduate College of Social Work"During the spring 2008 semester the GCSW entered into a partnership with the Institute of Interfaith Dialog(IID), which is part of a worldwide, Turkish-based foundation...From June 14 to June 26 [2008], Dean Colby, Professors Achenbaum, Cheung, Leung, S. Robbins, and Valdez accompanied three doctoral and eight MSW students to Turkey."

www.hartsem.edu/wp-content/uploads/aug05.pdfHartford Seminary, August 2005"Chisolm, Robertson and Robinson were among the trustees of Hartford Seminary who spent a busy three days in Istanbul, Turkey, in May, getting to know a key international partner of the Seminary — the Gulen faith community."

http://musegumbo.blogspot.com/"Jerry Ortiz y Pino, a New Mexico state senator and a friend from our circles at the Newman Center Catholic community at UNM, was putting together a group of journalists to go to Turkey and learn more about the country and the activities of the Gulen movement."

http://issuu.com/rochestercollege/docs/self_study_finalRochester College "In March of 2012, twenty students, faculty, board members, and administrators visited Turkey. … Rochester College collaborates with the Niagara Foundation, …In March 0f 2012, the foundation sponsored the trip to Turkey described above. "

http://tacomatraveler.blogspot.com/"The generous followers of Imam Gulen invite faith and civic leaders from around the world to visit Turkey, learn their history, share their civic engagement projects, and of course eat their tomatoes. I was privileged to be part of a cultural awareness mission this past June as a guest of the Seattle-based Acacia Foundation."

https://mesc.osu.edu/sites/mesc.osu.edu/files/events-turkey-trip-2012.pdfMiddle East Studies Center, Ohio State University"This author first became acquainted with Fethullan Gulen and the Gulen movement after [sic] selected by the Ohio State University’s Middle East Study Center with financial and logistical support from the Niagara Foundation to travel 10 days, March 15 to 25, 2012, to Turkey with a group of 24 professors, classroom teachers (K-16), to visitschools, learn about Turkish culture from university professors, and meet with their counterparts and other officials in Turkish government. Each participant paid $1,200; the sponsors largely subsidized other expenses."

http://www.hartfordinstitute.org/sociology/Johnson-Gulen-Hizmet-Movement.pdfD. Paul Johnson, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Texas Tech University"...the experiences of all of those with whom we talked who participated in the organized trips to tour Turkey were likewise uniformly and enthusiastically positive. This was true for all the members of the tour group of which I was a part in 2006, as well as those who had visited from Texas Tech University the year earlier. Members of these Turkey tour groups were particularly impressed by the well-organized and informative nature of the tours, the first-class arrangements, the educational value of the intercultural experience—and of course the food.

http://www.patersondiocese.org/hpage.cfm?Web_ID=2716Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson NJ, Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli"In each city we visited, we were welcomed into the homes and lives of Muslims who, like our host and guide, are spiritual sons and daughters of the teacher Gulen."

http://soulofthegarden.com/Turkey1.htmlTom Spencer, Austin TX"In June of 2009, I had the opportunity of participating in a remarkable journey to Turkey sponsored by the Institute of Interfaith Dialog, a Turkish Muslim group that the organization I lead, Austin Area Interreligious Ministries (AAIM) often partners with."

http://njjewishnews.com/njjn.com/030107/njJewishMuslimStudents.htmlNew Jersey Jewish News - Middle East Coexistence House at Douglass College"Two nonprofit organizations — the Interfaith Dialog Center in Carlstadt and Newark, a Turkish-American community organization, and the Princeton-based Karma Foundation — subsidized the trip, according to Josephs."

http://www.juancole.com/2014/04/victorious-authoritarian-credentials.htmlComment to the article by Don Utter, 2014"I usually read the Gulen linked on line newspaper, Todayszaman and find the multiple columns well written and informative. It is obvious that Erdogan has cast them as a parallel organization and will continue to attack them. I took a trip to Turkey sponsored by a US branch of the Gulen inspired organizations and was very impressed with their work on interfaith, dialog and culture."

http://samirselmanovic.typepad.com/faith_house/2007/11/my-discovery-of.html"During my visit to Turkey with a group sponsored by the Gulen movement..."http://samirselmanovic.typepad.com/faith_house/2007/11/my-discovery--1.htmlDr. Mark Carr of Loma Linda University"The Pacifica Institute is one of some fifteen associations of Gülen supporters in the U.S. and around the world..."